A Big 10-8 Place

Negativland’s third album, 1983’s A Big 10-8 Place, was the first to fully involve Don Joyce, whose Over the Edge radio show added even more of an element of Fireside Theatre-inspired sonic exploration and humor to their work in general. Notable for its elaborate packaging in various forms, the album had some fairly straightforwardish songs like the sweet silliness of “Clowns and Ballerinas” and the morosely sung “Five Fingers,” but it was the elaborate multipart title track, a surreal exploration of suburbia voiced by David Wills aka the Weatherman, which was the highlight.